### 7.3 Creating aliases to existing format names

To use output format names other than the DITA2Go default names could require specifying many settings that otherwise you would not have to include in your project configuration file. You can avoid this chore by mapping your preferred names to the DITA2Go names.

In this section:

§7.3.1 Understanding reasons for aliasing format names

§7.3.2 Assigning legacy names to defined formats

See also:

§6.3.4 Mapping wrapper-element outputclass attributes to formats

§8.1.3 Assigning additional names to subformats

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Parent Topic: 7. Configuring output formats

Sibling Topics:

7.1 Understanding the purpose of output formats

7.2 Working with format configuration files

7.4 Understanding how to define output formats

7.5 Understanding text output formats

7.6 Configuring text output formats

7.7 Defining table output formats

7.8 Defining page layouts for RTF output

7.9 Inserting line, column, and page breaks in output